Repost This ArticleThe world’s 10 most spoken languages, compared by location and relative population size.
JUST HOW MANY PEOPLE could you talk to if you picked up key phrases in nine more languages (assuming that you already speak English)? And how many parts of the world would you be likely to find someone to speak to in one of those languages? This infographic plots language speakers on the world map, and shows just how massive these widely spoken languages really are. 
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Eileen Smith
Eileen Smith is the editor of Matador Abroad. She's an ex-Brooklynite who's made a life in Santiago, Chile. She's a fluent Spanish speaker who can be found biking, hiking, writing, photographing and/or seeking good coffee and nibbles at most hours of the day. She blogs here.
Cool infographic! We posted it in our blog: http://blog.palabea.com/index.php/palabea-infographic-10-most-spoken-languages/.
Amerique, Inde, Arabie
that’s a comma — 1,213 million. hard to tell w/ the small font i know.
Oh geez, well that makes a LOT more sense. I should have realized that, seeing as it was above the #2 most spoken language at 329 million. It’s only logical. Haha, thanks!
It’s just a comma/dot mistake. One thousand million equals one billion, 1213 million is 1.3 billion.